MRS PARNELL’S TROUBLE.

Evening Star, Issue 8116, 16 January 1890, Page 4

MRS PARNELL’S TROUBLE.

Mrs Delia Parnell gave the following to a New York reporter :—“ I received some assistance from my appeal until Fitzgerald of the Land League took it upon himself to deny the story told by my friends. He said in substance that the League would have taken care of me had I made an appeal to them. My poverty dates back to 1879. I was.destitute then, and prominent members of the League were so informed. They took no action, but gave me the lie, James Redpath, of New York, took up my case. But when prominent members of the League gave me the lie, he too abandoned any idea of raising a fund quietly from a few wealthy members of the League. In 1885 and 1886, when I was ill in New York, the League members again knew of my condition. No action was taken. Ellen Ford, daughter of Patrick Ford, Mrs Condon, Mrs Kehoe, Mrs Maria Doherty and others raised between 1,700d0l and 1,900d01, but most of it went for expenses. Property which my brother left me, which has been considered my fortune, did not pay me one cent of interest. I have kept matters from the public until I have stared starvation in the face, and when I would appeal to prominent members of the League I would bo told that my son Charles had sufficient means to help me. This is false. Charles Stewart Parnell has not a dollar of his own in the world. What money he had has been contributed for the cause of Ireland, and he has no right to use it for my support. It is true that he gave up his private fortune for the cause, and when my boy entered Irish politics I gave up my dowry to aid him and Ireland ; but what is that if he wins Home Rule for the nation ?” Mrs Parnell spoke of the injustice being done her by the Land League, and said she would curse the day she married Parnell if that was to be used against her now.